Poor little TextEdit! Despite having a rich history—starting life as Edit in the Next’s NextStep operating system before becoming a feature in Mac OS X—the app gets little regard. But it deserves our ...

How to select multiple portions of text in TextEdit Here’s how you can select different pieces of text and copy them at the same time in TextEdit. This makes it much easier and faster to select ...

I regularly create and update documents in TextEdit using both plain and rich text (RTF) formats. One of my favorite features enables me to use built-in data detectors to automatically convert URLs to ...

A lot of people overlook TextEdit’s abilities as a word processor—in rich text mode, it’s actually not a bad tool for most word processing tasks. There is, however, one apparent omission: no way to ...

TextPad doesn't have a built-in method for automatically creating line breaks. Depending on whether you want to use TextEdit to create HTML documents for your business website or simply to create a ...

More Mac 101, our series of tips and tricks for novice Mac users. For those with modest text-editing needs, Apple's TextEdit is a great choice. Did you know that it's got an autocomplete option? David ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Mac users authoring text snippets, composing content, writing copy and otherwise drafting notes and ideas commonly turn to macOS’ own TextEdit. While it’s a competent text app, there’s no natural ...